About

Tim van Eyken has blazed an enviable trail since first coming to public awareness by winning the 1998 BBC Young Folk Award. He was soon snapped up by English traditional music's best know band Waterson:Carthy, spending the next six years recording and touring in Britain and abroad with them. It was an apprenticeship that served him well, and, with supergroup Dr Faustus, he was soon pushing at the boundaries of a new movement championing English folk music. He stepped back in to the spot-light in the newly invigorated scene with a brand new solo album Stiffs Lovers Holymen Theives, which garnered rave reviews from Mojo to The Sun and four nominations in the BBC Folk Awards, winning the much coveted Best Traditional Track for Barleycorn. The album had long stints in Virgin Megastores’ Roots Top 20 and BBC Radio 2 Folk Charts and, following a summer of touring with an all star lineup (Nancy Kerr, Oliver Knight, Pete Flood, Colin Fletcher), he gained further critical plaudits when he stepped in to the role of Songman in the National Theatre's hit show War Horse.

The Sunday Times voted Stiffs Lovers Holymen Thieves pop CD of the week, saying "van Eyken, at his best, encourages the songs to speak for themselves, and finds that they still have plenty to say" **** POP CD OF THE WEEK